Um estudo sobre a influência da personalidade humana na aplicação de métricas de software orientadas a objeto

Abstract

Personality of software engineering professionals has been a continuous element of interest in academic research. Researchers have applied different models of personality analysis in various software engineering areas to identify improvement points, to promote job satisfaction and to better organize teams. Among these models, we can highlight the MBTI and BIG Five. This work aims to conduct a study to evaluate personality models applied in software engineering and to understand how human personality influences software quality. Two controlled experiments were performed, the first in industry, in IT department of a private higher education institution and the second in an advanced programming discipline in academy. For both experiments, the quality of software individually produced by each participant was evaluated using software metrics for object-oriented paradigm languages. As a result, there is evidence that developers with different personalities do not develop software of equal quality. As the experiments were run in a single geographic location with an own software development culture, additional studies need to be performed to determine any real link between personality and software quality.